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Posted on 07/06/2026 6:15:08 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
Did you know that the number of Americans that are out of work right now is far higher than it was at any point during the Great Recession? I know that sounds crazy, but I will prove it to you in this article. A whopping 111 million Americans do not have a job, and we are spending more than a trillion dollars a year on the social safety net that supports them. Of course we cannot afford to do this, because the national debt has already reached 39 trillion dollars and it is growing at an astounding rate. If we do not fix our economy, disaster is inevitable..........
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How is that even possible?
We only have a population of 350 mil. Our unemployment rate is 4.2%
Yet 111 mil adults [nearly 30% of the population] are not employed?
I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer but that makes no sense to me.
And who was social security designed for?
It needs to advise working age non-workers. Are any children counted in this number? Also, how many Americans are working for comparison? Lots of questions.
Yes, I failed to mention self employed. I’ve had three W2 jobs since 1990 for a total of about maybe 3-4 years combined. Only one full time and I still had Schedule C income then. Also non working souses be they male or female.
“””The figures seem to include homemakers.
That needs to be backed out of the numbers.”””
Here are some numbers to ponder-—
Total population 341 million
Age 18 to 65 population is 212 million.
So I do not buy the author’s numbers that 111 million are not working.
When you remove medically unable to work, stay at home mothers, unpaid caregivers for elderly parents, and other reasons, the author’s numbers are pretty much hogwash.
I am not employed. First time in 44 years. My income is the same as when I was working.
We have a totally printed, fiat money supply, courtesy of the Federal Reserve, which allows Fed.gov to run $2-3 Trillion deficits every year
We also have China, which is still willing to do much of our manufacturing work for us, in exchange for printed, green Federal Reserve notes.
Its a pretty good deal, while it lasts.
She wouldn't be counted in government statistics as unemployed unless she is actively seeking work. I am retired as well and not in the labor pool..
I do believe you’re right.
My own personal drama, whined about here previously: Over the past five years, my cost of living expressed on a monthly basis has increased nearly $2,000. It’s just me, two Kats, and a home I own outright here in CA. My lifestyle changed not one iota. But the system decided that it wanted more of my money, so they took it. Somebody has it. I want to know who, and I want it back.
My reward for working my ass off pretty much all of my life, staying out of jail, never a penny in ‘public assistance’ of any kind, and playing by the rules... A Chump, in other words.
But you're right on the official definition of unemployed and actively seeking work.
“ But when they are dishonest with the numbers, the main point, a valid one, gets lost in the noise.”
Precisely. They’ve fallen into the trap of being as dishonest as the MSM but for a different agenda.
It’s bad enough (and consistently dishonest) that I’ve wondered if they’re not a fifth column of bad reporting to make us look stupid.
The article does a poor job of explaining that this “111 million US adults do not have a job” includes everyone over the age of 16, and may include mothers at home, retirees, people in prison, in hospital etc...
Yes, it also does include a lot of people on welfare who simply sit at home - a figure, along with disability, has been rising steadily over the last decades.
It’s elementary economics: If you subsidize something, you’re guaranteed to get more of it. The worst of our many “social safety net” programs have subsidized indolence, irresponsibility and bastardy, and now we’re drowning in all three. The growth of shamelessness certainly doesn’t help.
Probably so.
Much of it isn’t laziness. Do you know how difficult it is to find a job?
Today it’s insane.
And unemployment insurance pays a whopping $295/week, only for 12 weeks. You read that right, it’s enough to cover food and that’s it.
I have LinkedIn premium and there can be over 100 applicants to a job less than a minute after it’s posted.
I’ve applied to jobs paying $16/hr to $230k/year and after 7 months crickets.
I have too much and too little experience having being in the workforce for half a century.
Employers are absolutely ridiculous in their demands.
And by ethnicity.
How about getting rid of all of the bullshit regulations that prevent job creation...
When the warm embrace of socialism engulfs us all, we’ll be fat, dumb and happy.
If you are 85 years old and you are not living in a nursing home, you are considered an “available worker” under U.S. Department of Labor statistics — even if you’ve been retired for 20 years.
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